Jun Hyung had woken up in a completely white room. He stared up at the ceiling for several minutes before realizing that the lights looked like those that belonged in a hospital. He tried to move his arms but a sharp pain shot up and he looked down to see an IV attached to him. He couldn't remember how he had got there. He thought back and all he could remember was a burning pain.

He turned his head to the side and angeled it down just slightly when he felt something soft lightly brush his arm. He was greeted with a head of bright red hair and it took him a couple of minutes before he realized that it was Hyun Seung sleeping beside him. He moved his IV-free arm and poked the other on the head. The initial response he got from the action was a little shake of the head and the other's hand swatting away the intruder. He tried it again and this time Hyun Seung looked up at him. Jun Hung smiled but the other just gave him a dissatisfied frown.

"You're such an ," Hyun Seung said as he completely sat up, his previous thoughts of finishing his sleep long gone after seeing the other boy awake, "This is what you get for sticking your nose in my business, you get sent to the hospital and the doctors had to pull a miracle out of their asses to save you."

"When did I stick my nose in your business?"

"You don't remember," Hyun Seung asked and he got a head shake from Jun Hyung.

"It's all kind of fuzzy."

"Long story short. You held your gun to Choi Seung Hyun's head and actually threatened to kill him but before you could follow through with that threat he shot you in the abdomen. Hitting an internal organ and almost causing your death."

"I almost shot him."

"Hardly," Hyun Seung said and Jun Hyung felt his mood drop and his ego deflate, the other didn't have to be so blunt about it, "Don't get me wrong, it was heroic and all but you've yet to reach the level where you can take him down."

"I don't know if your insulting me or warning me for the next encounter."

"Try option one because there won't be a next encounter if I can help it."

"Are you trying to protect me?"

"This has nothing to do with you," Hyun Seung said as he stood, not noticing the quick flash of hurt that passed though Jun Hyung's face at his words, "I don't want anyone else to die because of me, so all you have to do is keep to your own business so our paths will no longer cross and I won't have to worry about you dying at an early age." He picked up Jun Hyung's cell phone from the bed side table and lightly tossed it at the other's chest, "Doo Joon's been blowing up your phone, so call him back and just keep the real reason for your injury a secret or I'll disappear again."

Jun Hyung looked at the phone that now laid in his lap, after bouncing off his chest, before looking up to see Hyun Seung leave the room. "Harsh." The other didn't hear him as the door snapped shut, he looked down at the phone and dialed Doo Joon's number, quickly thinking of a way to explain the bullet wound.

"How is he," Dong Woon asked as Hyun Seung came out of the room but Hyun Seung didn't hear him, he just walked right by the other. He was to busy mentally punishing himself for taking out his anger and frustration on the injured man, but the other did make him wait three days before waking up. Dong Woon followed him, calling his name every few seconds. He still didn't respond so he grabbed the other's wrist and flipped him around so they were facing each other. Hyun Seung's eyes widened in surprise as Dong Woon smiled at him.

"Glad to know you're back with us on Earth," he said, "I called your name at least a million times...where'd your mind take you this time?"

"He was mad at himself because he was being too harsh on Jun Hyung." They both turned to see Yo Seob walking towards them with ice creams in his hands, one for each of them.

"Where'd you come from," Dong Woon asked at the same time Hyun Seung asked, "What did you do, spy on me?"

"I came from the ice cream shop inside the hospital," he answered Dong Woon's question before turning to Hyun Seung with an excited sparkle in his eyes, "I was right! See I told Woonie that I knew you best but he didn't believe me." He turned to Dong Woon once more, "See, this is proof that I know Seungie the best!"

"Um, Seob," Hyun Seung interrupted the other and Yo Seob turned towards him, "The ice creams are going to melt." He looked down at the ice cream he held in his hands with a blank expression before realization dawned on him, it was as if he had completely forgotten about the frozen treats in his hands. He held out his left hand that held the two ice creams meant for both Hyun Seung and Dong Woon, one chocolate and the other vanilla, while he away at his strawberry ice cream.

"So Hyun Seung," Dong Woon asked as he away at his chocolate ice cream, "Is he fine?"

"That idiot made me worry for nothing," Hyun Seung pouted as he started to make his way out of the hospital, "Three days of wondering if he'll wake up, wondering if the surgery was successful...and that idiot wakes up perfectly fine." Yo Seob and Dong Woon exchange glances behind Hyun Seung but stayed silent for a while. They were a few feet from the hospital before Dong Woon spoke up.

"So you're mad at him for making you worry?"

"Why would I worry about him," Hyun Seung asked as he kept walking forward, "We're not in a relationship where I need to worry about him."

"...but you want to be," Yo Seob asked quietly. Hyun Seung stopped in his spot and turned around to narrow his eyes at the other two, making them stop in their tracks. Mid-.

"What are you implying?"

"That you like him...and you want more of a relationship then you have now," Yo Seob said as if it was obvious. Hyun Seung scoffed at that and took a of his ice cream before speaking again.

"Why would I like an arrogant bastard like him," Hyun Seung asked with a frown, "He doesn't listen to others and just jumps into situations, he's a person who will probably die early in life cause he thinks he can do anything. So tell me why would I let myself fall for him?" You can't help who you fall for, Yo Seob thought but never said out loud while Dong Woon thought, Your heart decides, decisions in love aren't yours to make.

"You're right," Yo Seob said with a cheerful smile, "I must be going crazy, the amazing Jang Hyun Seung would never fall for a man like that." Hyun Seung smiled, as if the words that Yo Seob said were the only ones he needed to hear, before turning back around and leading them towards home. Dong Woon and Yo Seob followed behind him after exchanging glances that screamed he's in denial.

"Tell me again how you got yourself in a hospital bed," Doo Joon asked as he stood beside Jun Hyung's hospital bed.

"Like I said a hundred times, I was working an independent case and things didn't go how I wanted them too."

"Without informing me or anyone else on the team?"

"It was an independent case," he said for what felt like the thousandth time, though in reality it was only the tenth, "There was no need to inform the team."

"Damn it Jun Hyung," Doo Joon said as he rubbed his temples with his index and middle finger in a circular motion, "Don't you know what the meaning of team is?"

"Of course I do," he pouted, "I'm not an idiot."

"Oh I don't think you do," Doo Joon said as he opened his eyes too look at the other, "See a team is always working together. Even if you were working an independent case you should've informed someone of the team, they're there to help not harm."

"I know that."

"If you know that then why didn't you," Doo Joon asked, "Is this why you were transfered to my team? Did you pull this with your other team?" Jun Hyung was hurt by the other's words but at the moment he didn't care, Doo Joon wanted to make sure that he knew what he did wrong and how he was wrong.

Several minutes of silence passed between them and Doo Joon crossed his arms over his chest.

"Seeing how you're not giving me an answer I can assume that I'm right." Doo Joon grabbed a chair from behind him and slid it next to the bed, turning it so he could used the back of the chair to rest his arms. "Jun Hyung," Doo Joon said seriously, "You really have to learn to rely on us, we're a team so it's pretty much what we're their for..."

"Hyun Seung wouldn't let me," Jun Hyung accused before quickly clamping his hands over his mouth. He was tired of being blamed for not being a team-player but he knew he shouldn't have uttered those words.

"What does Hyun Seung have to do with this?"

Hyun Seung was in the lobby getting his mail from the box, Dong Woon and Yo Seob were just a few feet away from him having a whispered argument about something that he couldn't hear and didn't care enough to ask about. He went through his mail like he normally did but he found himself pausing on a single letter. The handwriting was different but it had to be from one of Seung Hyun's men because, just like Seung Hyun's letter, the envelope only had his name and address on it. No return address.

He didn't examine it like he normally would because he didn't want Dong Woon or Yo Seob to notice him over examining the letter, he had to wait until he was inside and away from the others. He reluctantly passed by it like it was any other mail before slipping it into the messenger bag that he always carried with him.

"Anything special," Dong Woon asked as he realized Hyun Seung was done looking through his mail.

"Just the normal bills and coupon clippings." Hyun Seung turned to them and lied without effort. He had already had so many years of practice.

"Okay, then let's head up," Yo Seob said happily before skipping over to the elevators like a little kid. To this day, whenever Hyun Seung had watched the shorter boy, he wondered how the other became a government paid spy. He was just too childish.

On the way up Dong Woon and Yo Seob continued their whispered argument while Hyun Seung became lost in his own thoughts, his mind on the letter that he received today. He wanted to know why he had gotten it, what significance the letter held, and if the letter was anything special at all. He didn't recognize the handwriting so maybe he was just being paranoid.

Once in the apartment they headed their separate ways to go to sleep. Dong Woon and Yo Seob heading into the guest bedroom to sleep while Hyun Seung headed into his room to read the letter.

He kept he light off as he entered the room, easily maneuvering the darkness to make it to his bed. He dropped the bag on to his bed before reaching over to the nightstand and digging a flashlight out of the drawer.

After several minutes of blind shifting through all the things he kept in the drawer he finally pulled out the flash light he was looking for. Pulling the blanket over himself and the bag he the flashlight and stuck it in his mouth, he couldn't help but to feel like Harry Potter in the beginning of the Prisoner of Azkaban book, having to do things secretly at night so his guardians, Dong Woon and Yo Seob in this case, didn't find out.

He opened his bag and dumped the mail onto the bed, pushing the bag out of the way before shifting through the mail as quietly as he could. It didn't take him that long to find the letter he was looking for and he would have smiled if he didn't have the of a flashlight in his mouth.

Opening the letter was long and painstaking because he had to keep from making too much noise and after several minutes, that felt like hours, he finally had the letter out of the envelope and started to read it with the dim light from the flashlight. Bring yourself, and only yourself, out to the ally way beside your apartment complex. He flipped it over in his hands to see if anything else was written and was very disappointed that he was only given that sentence. He put the letter on his bed, turned off the flashlight, and pulled the blanket from his head. He looked towards his bedroom door and contemplated if he could escape through the front door without Dong Woon or Yo Seob catching him, but he knew that if he took that way out he would be caught before even turning the door handle. He then turned his head towards his window, it was his best option.

He stood and slipped some shoes onto his feet before going to his window and opening it. There was back stairs on the side of his building so he decided to use that way to escape, though he was sure the burglars and such used them to get easy access to apartments they wanted to rob.

Once he was one the other side he closed his window behind him and started to descend the four flights of stairs. He moved quickly but quietly and it wasn't long before he was climbing down the ladder that put him in the ally next to his apartment building. He stood their for several minutes surrounded by darkness, dumpsters, trashcans, and a foul stench. The moon wasn't providing much light for him to see if anyone was approaching.

After what felt like hours Hyun Seung felt a pair of arms snake around his waist and he jumped at least five feet into the air, his heart racing from surprise. A familiar laugh sounded from behind him and he couldn't help but to smile.

"Ji Yong," he said with a fond tone, "Since you're here can I safely assume that Seung Ri isn't far away."

"You can," Ji Yong said as he turned Hyun Seung around so they were facing each other, "He's keeping watch to make sure that no one walks into our meeting like some one did with you and the big boss man's meeting not to long ago. Young Bae and Dae Sung are here too."

"Wow all of you are here," Hyun Seung smiled as he looked at the other, ignoring the comment about his and Seung Hyun's meeting from a few days ago. The familiar features of the boy could even be seen in the poor lighting provided by the moonlight, "Can I know what I've done to be graced with your amazing presence."

"Seung Hyun didn't want to come out to meet you again," Ji Yong said, "He wanted me to send you the message, 'I'm coming to take you back soon, my love." Hyun Seung made a gagging noise at the message and Ji Yong smiled his all to familiar smile, it made Hyun Seung want to pull the other into a bone breaking embrace.

"We don't have much time," Seung Hyun said as he walked up from behind Ji Yong, "The agents are going to realize that he's gone."

"Ah Seung Ri," Ji Yong pouted, "You have to ruin the fun, we're finally seeing each other after so many years apart."

"Yeah Seung Ri," Hyun Seung said with his best pout, "I don't even get a hug?" He held his arms out towards the other and he cracked a smile.

"Don't even think about it." A loud and happy voice came from behind Hyun Seung and he couldn't help but to turn around at the familiar voice. Dae Sung and Young Bae were walking his way, "You can't give Seung Ri a hug without giving me a hug first."

"Fine how about this," Hyun Seung said with a smile, "I'll give Dae Dae a hug, then panda Ri, then Bae, and then Ji Ji goes last. How does that sound?" Ji Yong made a sound of protest, but Hyun Seung ignored it as he gave the other men their hugs. It had been a while since he had seen them and he never got to thank them for what they have done for him, he hoped the hugs would be enough since he couldn't express anything in words. He also just really wanted to hug them all just to feel their embrace and hang out with them like old times but he new the latter wasn't possible, so the former would be good enough for now.

"We have this kid name Ki Kwang who's new to the gang," Ji Yong whispered into Hyun Seung's ear as they hugged, "He's rising in ranks quick and we're going to send him over to you." Hyun Seung gave a slight, barely noticeable nod as they pulled apart to show that he understood what the other was telling him.

"Don't slack off as Seung Hyun's right hand mans," Hyun Seung called after them as they left him in the alley way. Once they were gone from his sight he started his way back up to his floor. The travel going by quicker this time around, it only took him a few minutes to make it back into his room.

Once back in his room he slipped off his shoes before heading straight for his bed. Blindly shifting through the letters before finding the familiar, unique texture of the letter Ji Yong had left him. He threw the letter into his bag and threw his bag towards the general direction of his closet, he could really only guess while completely surrounded by darkness. As for the rest of the mail he simply pushed it all off onto the floor before curling up in his bed, underneath his blanket, and falling asleep almost instantly. His mind peaceful after see all those familiar faces. No nightmares visited him that night.